Chapter 172: A Conspiracy Behind It?

"Young Master, do we really want to work with the Taiping Dao? I see that the Taiping Dao is not very peaceful..." Gao He was Su Fan's childhood companion. When Su Fan came, he naturally wouldn't be missing, and he had read books with Su Fan. Many things regarding the army's logistics were handed over to him; he was considered the army's registrar.

However, he came later than Gao Hu and the others, but he had also seen it.

"Hmph! Nonsense."

"No need for you to say."

Su Fan shook his head: "Don't talk about this in the future. We just need to take care of ourselves."

Su Fan naturally knew the future direction of the Taiping Dao, but for now, he could only play dumb. In fact, the Taiping Dao had developed to this point—did no one in the world know?

Do you really think they are blind?

Perhaps there were some noblemen who were true believers, so they "couldn't see" everything about the Taiping Dao. True smart people had long had their guesses.

Like the Guangling Gao Clan, the current Clan Leader is Su Fan's uncle. After Su Fan left, the two had a conversation.

Great families and clans would never put all their eggs in one basket. Su Fan's departure, whether forced or voluntarily joining the Taiping Dao, was a choice.

Whether he succeeded or failed, it was a choice for the Gao Clan. If he succeeded, the Gao Clan could obtain more benefits. If he failed, it was nothing more than losing a direct disciple, and he wasn't the successor to the Clan Leader anyway, so it didn't count for much.

Don't think that Su Fan's uncle is cold-blooded. One must know that Su Fan's departure took away quite a few resources.

Su Fan being able to stand firm in Donghai Commandery—the grain and grass at the beginning were all secretly supported by the Gao Clan.

Up to now, one thousand of the weapons and armor in the army were provided by the Gao Clan.

Su Fan coming to Donghai Commandery and being able to develop hundreds of thousands of believers—the money and grain consumed, could it have been conjured out of thin air? Of course not; it was all secretly supported by the Gao Clan.

True great families and powerful clans are still relatively united.

Unfortunately, the original wish of that Gao Clan Clan Leader could not be achieved. Although the Gao Clan is a scholar clan and even the number one family in Guangling, placed in the entire Shenhan, it only counts as the tail end of a third-rate family.

The Gao Clan wants to go further, but it is very difficult because the major families have long ago allocated the resources. If you want to go further, aren't you trying to cut their meat from those larger clans?

How could they agree? It would be good if they didn't suppress them. In fact, over these years, the Gao Clan in Xuzhou has also been constantly suppressed by the Chen Clan in the dark. The Gao Clan in Guangling—they don't care, but once the Gao Clan wants to break through Guangling, they will constantly receive secret suppression from the Chen Clan.

The Chen Clan of Xiapi—their strength is indeed stronger than the Gao Clan. After all, many people from the Chen Clan hold official positions, especially Chen Qiu, who has served as one of the Three Excellencies and Nine Ministers.

The highest position held by the Gao Clan through the generations was only the Prefect of Bohai.

Whether it is the influence in the scholar circles or the family's foundation, they are far inferior to the Chen Clan. And the Chen Clan of Xiapi also has connections with the Chen Clan of Yingchuan.

The Chen Clan of Yingchuan belongs to a first-rate family in the entire Shenhan.

So if the Gao Clan wants to break through, they must find another way. The appearance of the Taiping Dao allowed the current Clan Leader of the Gao Clan to see a glimmer of light.

Plus Su Fan being forcibly taken as a disciple by Zhang Jiao, the former just went with the flow.

It's just that the Taiping Dao Yellow Turban Rebellion is destined to have no great hope. Zhang Jiao is powerful—Su Fan also admits this—but to say that the Liu Clan of the Shenhan Dynasty has no experts, that is absolutely impossible.

Four thousand years—how much foundation is there?

The Liu Clan is the most powerful scholar clan in the world. Even the Yuan Clan and Yang Clan, who have been Excellencies for four generations, how can they compare to the Liu Clan?

The Taiping Dao will ultimately only be a vanguard for the king.

However, after experiencing the Taiping Dao, the foundation of the Liu Clan will eventually be consumed a lot, or even consumed completely, which gives other families a chance.

In the historical plane, why the Yellow Turban Rebellion happened, Su Fan doesn't care.

But in this Shenhan plane, Su Fan feels that there is a huge conspiracy here. Zhang Jiao being able to obtain the *Taiping Heaven Scripture*—is it really because he is favored by luck?

If it were really like that, would he fail?

The Liu Clan has existed for four thousand years. Is it possible that someone is already dissatisfied with the Liu Clan to the extreme and wants to overthrow the Liu Clan?

The *Taiping Heaven Scripture*—this classic is so precious, and it was owned by the Nanhua Laoxian. Why would the Nanhua Laoxian pass this classic to Zhang Jiao?

Why does Zhang Jiao want to overthrow the Liu Clan?

The Taiping Dao developing so smoothly—the local scholar clans even secretly fueled the flames behind their backs.

All of this, Su Fan guesses, is likely a huge conspiracy, a conspiracy by those Daoist sects and great families united against the Liu Clan of Shenhan.

Otherwise, Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao would not have developed so smoothly.

Just like him now, in Ganyu, Donghai Commandery, the Ganyu County Magistrate doesn't care about them at all. As long as they don't attack the county city, the Ganyu County Magistrate just ignores them.

Placed in the past, gathering ten thousand people would be tantamount to rebellion.

Is it possible that the local government officials really can't see that the Taiping Dao is going to rebel?

Major Qu Shuai are many training troops, and some are trading weapons and armor with scholar clans, but they all play dumb and ignore it directly.

All of this shows the contradiction between the scholar clans and the Liu Clan.

Of course, all of this has nothing to do with Su Fan. He is not a loyal subject of the Shenhan Dynasty, and he has no feelings for the Shenhan Dynasty.

In the final years of a dynasty, when incompetent rulers hold sway, the changing of dynasties is merely the cycle of heaven and earth.

Perhaps in a transcendental world, changing dynasties is even more difficult, because the higher up they are, the more resources they monopolize, making it very difficult for people at the bottom to change dynasties.

Just like the Liu Clan, their foundation is beyond imagination, so those ambitious families dare not move rashly.

So they found the Taiping Dao, letting the Taiping Dao collide with the Liu Clan to consume the Liu Clan's foundation.

Su Fan feels that this is the true intention of those great families.

Perhaps at the beginning, they didn't think the Taiping Dao would do it so thoroughly, so in the end, some families launched actions in a hurry.

Otherwise, how could they let Dong Zhuo, this guy, occupy Luoyang?

Of course, these are the future. Whether they can happen, even Su Fan doesn't know. After all, Shenhan is Shenhan, and Great Han is Great Han.

Perhaps Zhang Jiao, relying on his terrifying strength, really overthrew the Liu Clan in one fell swoop and also suppressed the scholar clans of the world along the way—that's also possible.

Until the very end, no one knows who the final winner is.

It's just that Zhang Jiao wanting to succeed is unusually difficult, which is also the reason why Su Fan is unwilling to choose him.

His Dao is contrary to the world. "Those who follow the Dao have many helpers, those who lose the Dao have few." This era is controlled by great families.

The people are not enlightened, and it is simply impossible to do what was done on Earth in later generations.

This is also why, in that Datang life, Su Fan also had to rely on the major scholar clans of the world. Even if he opened a hundred academies, he still couldn't bypass the scholar clans and the Confucian sect.

Zhang Jiao is committing an offense against his superiors, and wanting to rely on the bottom-level civilians is really very difficult. ===== CHAPTER 173 =====